Fritz Leiber Books in Order

A college professor learns that his wife practices witchcraft, and that she may have been protecting him from a world full of similar hidden power. Domestic life and academic politics become a superbly nasty supernatural trap.

In a far future ruled by a theocracy that disguises science as miracle, rebellion takes on the look of black magic. It is part dystopia, part anti-clerical thriller, and still feels brisk.

A Probability Engine opens the way to alternate worlds, and suddenly history is no longer singular or safe. Leiber uses the setup for a brainy, fast-moving novel about branching realities and looming conflict.

Leiber's first major collection gathers fantasy and horror stories, including some of his most important weird fiction. It is the place to see his early urban dread and supernatural bite.

In a damaged future America obsessed with masks, style, and violence, a drifter meets a woman trying to escape a brutal fate. It is short, sharp, and eerily modern in its social satire.

Carr Mackey discovers that most people around him move through life like automatons, while a hidden few are fully awake and often dangerous. It turns paranoia, romance, and reality slippage into a tense science fiction nightmare.

After Earth is torn from the Sun and the air freezes, a family fights to stay alive in the dark and cold. The story is told simply, which makes the catastrophe feel even larger.

This postwar science fiction story keeps its focus close to home, where survival, denial, and hope live side by side under a poisoned sky. The domestic scale only makes the dread stronger.

A dark collection of Leiber stories that leans toward horror and the uncanny. Expect menace, city shadows, and the kind of strange idea he could land in a few pages.

Phil Gish's dreary life changes when a mysterious green cat named Lucky walks into it. What follows is a funny, odd, and quietly satirical future adventure with more danger than its opening suggests.

Earth's first Martian visitor politely asks for the bathroom, then stays in there far too long. Leiber turns that simple joke into a wonderfully tense and silly first-contact comedy.

A small everyday problem with food turns into comic science fiction chaos. Leiber uses the setup to poke fun at technology, habits, and how badly ordinary people adapt to change.

Most of this time-war classic unfolds in a single offstage refuge where soldiers and staff from many eras wait, gossip, and panic. The result is tight, theatrical science fiction with huge implications.

In a blasted future America, a scavenger and a mysterious girl circle each other through fear, attraction, and the urge to kill first. It is lean post-apocalyptic fiction with a mean streak.

This volume pairs Leiber's best-known time-war novella with additional shorter fiction. It is a good sampler if you want both the major Change War work and a wider spread of his ideas.

In a future where books are manufactured and authors can be replaced, publishing becomes a target for satire. Leiber has a lot of fun with robot writers, literary vanity, and commercial absurdity.

A collection of eerie Leiber tales where ordinary spaces hide watching things, bad decisions, and supernatural pressure. It is a strong fit for readers who like their weird fiction lean and moody.

A sardonic science fiction novella about advertising, gadgets, and social pressure, as one man gets caught in a world that seems engineered to think for him. Leiber keeps it funny and uneasy at once.

This Gray Mouser origin story follows a young apprentice from scholarship into revenge, swordplay, and darker company. It is short, vivid, and essential if you want the pair's backstory.

A theater-centered science fiction story where rehearsal, memory, and history start bleeding together. Leiber turns backstage confusion into something funny, strange, and quietly uncanny.

This volume gathers spacefaring and speculative stories that show Leiber's science fiction range. Even at his most cosmic, he stays interested in human nerves, vanity, and improvisation.

A rogue planet appears near the Moon and throws Earth into chaos. Leiber handles the cosmic disaster on a grand scale, but never loses sight of frightened people trying to survive it.

A collection of fantasy and horror stories with a darker, more predatory mood than the title suggests. Leiber gives the book menace, movement, and a steady undertow of strangeness.

A swaggering gambler heads into a nightmarish game and ends up throwing dice against Death itself. The story is dark, folkloric, and unforgettable in just a few pages.

A long-limbed actor from an orbital society heads to a grotesquely enlarged future Texas and gets caught up in revolution. Leiber turns the setup into broad satire with a very sharp bite.

This collection leans into the series' magical side, with dangerous errands, weird towers, and trouble arranged by wizards who never tell the whole truth. The friendship stays at the center.

Hard times split Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser apart, then throw them back together for voyages, curses, and dangerous bargains. The mood is a little sadder here, but the adventure stays sharp.

This collection moves through fantasy, horror, and speculative strangeness with Leiber's usual feel for mood and human weakness. It is more about atmosphere than one single showcase story.

When the two rogues tangle with forces beneath Lankhmar, they uncover a rat-led threat that could overrun the city. It is one of Leiber's fullest, funniest, and strangest single adventures.

Fresh from their fateful meeting, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser drift into theft, sorcery, monsters, and shipboard danger. It is one of the core collections that defines the pair's swaggering, melancholy style.

This is the origin book for Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Leiber follows their separate youths, their first meeting in Lankhmar, and the loss that binds them together.

A career-spanning selection of Leiber essentials, from classic horror to major science fiction and fantasy. If you want one volume that shows why readers keep coming back to him, this is a smart choice.

This book mixes ten stories with related essays and commentary, giving you both Leiber's fiction and the way he thought about it. It is unusually personal without losing the fun.

A varied collection of Leiber's shorter work, moving between fantasy, horror, science fiction, and reflection on the field. It is a strong book for readers who want range rather than one mode.

This collection lives up to its title by ranging across Leiber's different modes, from sly science fiction to darker fantasy and horror. It works well as a broad introduction.

In 1970s San Francisco, recovering writer Franz Westen finds himself pulled into an occult mystery tied to cities, geometry, and a dangerous old book. It is eerie, personal, and deeply rooted in place.

This late Lankhmar volume sends Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser into colder, stranger territory. The adventures have the familiar wit and danger, but with an older, more reflective edge.

A varied Lankhmar collection that sends Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser through cursed streets, sea-haunted danger, and magical schemes where wit matters as much as steel.

This collection leans into fantasy and horror, including Fafhrd and Gray Mouser material alongside darker standalone pieces. It shows how easily Leiber could move from adventure to unease.

A compact fantasy fable about innocence, danger, and the strange logic of magic. It is small in scale, but it has the odd dreamlike pressure Leiber could do so well.

This collection ranges from time war to horror and fantasy, anchored by the eerie title piece. It is a good snapshot of Leiber when he is most unpredictable and least interested in staying in one lane.

Leiber turns to Sherlock Holmes here, building a neat period mystery around an impossible clockwork puzzle. It is a clever pastiche that enjoys both the problem and the atmosphere.

This linked collection gathers Leiber's Change War stories, where the Snakes and Spiders rewrite history itself. Time travel here feels unstable, personal, and more unsettling than triumphant.

This Lankhmar collection gathers Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories shaped by temptation, glamour, and magical traps. The title tale alone tells you a lot about Leiber's taste for cursed desire.

A substantial collection of stories and novelettes, plus a long autobiographical essay by Leiber himself. It is one of the better books for readers who want the fiction and the man beside it.

These late Lankhmar tales follow older, wearier versions of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser as old desires, strange magic, and one more round of trouble pull them back into adventure.

This paired volume brings together two award-winning novellas: a future civil war in No Truce with Kings, and Leiber's eerie Ship of Shadows. It is a compact double dose of tense, idea-rich speculative fiction.

This novella tells the first meeting of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, along with the night's joy, theft, and tragedy that forges their bond. It is one of the defining stories of sword and sorcery.

A retrospective volume built around Leiber's long career, gathering fiction and appreciation in one place. It is best for readers who want a wider look at his influence and legacy.

This omnibus pairs Conjure Wife with Our Lady of Darkness, two of Leiber's strongest supernatural novels. Read together, they show how his horror moved from domestic threat to urban occult dread.

This graphic volume adapts two classic Lankhmar tales, pairing curses, cliffside danger, and sharp-tongued heroics with bold fantasy art. It is a quick, visual gateway into Leiber's rogues.

A cat-centered collection full of wit, affection, and Leiber's delight in giving animals far more inner life than humans expect. It is playful, but never merely cute.

Leiber's love of cats gets the spotlight in this feline-themed collection. Expect humor, fantasy, and a sense that cats may already understand worlds people only stumble into.

Writer George Kramer returns to a California town gripped by hysteria and finds his old friends missing, a grave disturbed, and a time experiment at the center of it all. It mixes pulp horror with slippery science fiction.

An oil-soaked horror story in which obsession, industry, and a sinister seaman slide together into something deeply unhealthy. It is one of Leiber's grimiest and most memorable weird tales.

A modern career-spanning selection that shows how easily Leiber moved among horror, fantasy, and science fiction. It is one of the best one-book ways to meet his shorter work.

A wide-ranging collection of Leiber stories that moves from fantasy to horror to science fiction without strain. The pleasures here are variety, tone, and the number of strange ideas packed in.

A man is haunted by a ghost born not from castles or graveyards, but from soot, smoke, and the city's industrial filth. It is a landmark piece of modern urban horror.

This horror collection centers on one of Leiber's signature urban nightmares and surrounds it with related uncanny tales. It is a strong entry point if you want the weird side first.

A collection of horror and weird tales led by the deeply unsettling title novella. It shows Leiber at his most intimate and unnerving, where fear grows out of the mind as much as the supernatural.

Howard Chaykin and Mike Mignola adapt Leiber's famous duo into a moody comic adventure full of alleys, sorcery, and dirty old cities. It keeps the wit and danger of the originals intact.

This collection gathers the satirical title novella with other short Leiber pieces, blending science fiction comedy with sharper social unease. It is a lively sample of his lighter touch.

A collection of short fiction that leans into Leiber's satirical and speculative side. Expect odd premises, human vanity, and a willingness to poke holes in heroic certainty.

This volume gathers rare early Leiber work, including stories from before his first professional breakthrough. It is especially interesting if you want to watch the writer taking shape.

A small horror volume showcasing Leiber's talent for atmosphere, dread, and the nasty turn of the final image. Best for readers who want a quick sample rather than a full collection.

A quiet, haunting Leiber story where longing and memory open onto a subtle science fictional turn. It is gentle on the surface and stranger underneath.

A digital-era sampler of Leiber science fiction, useful for readers who want a quick run through his shorter speculative work. The appeal is variety and accessibility.

Another compact sampler of Leiber's science fiction, gathering shorter work in a convenient omnibus form. It works best for browsing across ideas rather than following one series.

This grim short horror piece circles guilt, mortality, and the fear that death may not end a presence as neatly as the living would like. It is compact and nasty in the best way.

A brief, unsettling tale in which an apparently ordinary message opens onto loss, dread, and something stranger. Leiber lets the unease arrive quietly, then stay.

This paired fantasy volume offers subterranean scheming, strange power, and a taste of Leiber outside his best-known books. The first half is especially good if you like dark, crooked fantasy politics.

Anchored by Leiber's bleak post-apocalyptic novella, this collection adds more shorter work around it. It is a solid choice if you want the harsher, more stripped-down side of his fiction.

A collection shaped by Leiber's fondness for dreams, unstable reality, and the moment the ordinary tilts into the uncanny. It is more about mood and surprise than one flagship story.

This omnibus gathers all of Leiber's Change War fiction in one place. If you want the full sweep of the Snakes versus Spiders conflict, this is the most direct route.

This collection gathers the title story with more Leiber tales of disaster, irony, and human stubbornness. It is a good fit if you prefer his shorter science fiction and darker social satire.

A dark tale of pursuit and nocturnal menace, built on the feeling that something hungry is just outside the light. Leiber keeps the pressure tight and the atmosphere thick.

A late Fafhrd and Gray Mouser adventure built around rumor, cold-country danger, and a monster that may be more complicated than it first appears. Short, odd, and very Lankhmar.

This collection leans into Leiber's science fictional side, with space travel, dislocation, and sly twists never far away. The stories are brisk, clever, and rarely too comfortable.

A mixed collection of shorter Leiber pieces, with danger, irony, and speculative turns arriving fast. It is a handy pick if you enjoy his pulpy, economical storytelling.

A broad sampler of Leiber's work, useful for readers who want a quick taste of his horror, fantasy, and science fiction in one place. Think of it as a doorway rather than a final stop.

A wandering man stumbles into a hidden desert community and meets a young woman whose household makes ordinary ideas about marriage and identity useless. It is playful science fiction with a sly edge.

A deceptively calm story about a house touched by the past, where familiar rooms begin to feel unstable. Leiber builds the unease a little at a time instead of rushing it.

A compact archival sampler of Leiber science fiction, built for readers who want to dip into shorter work and older magazine-era ideas. The fun is in the range and the speed.